{"product_id":"hunting-of-the-snark-lewis-carroll-peter-newell-1903-glassine","title":"The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses","description":"\u003cp\u003e(Children's Literature, Poetry, Illustrated Books) CARROLL, Lewis. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE HUNTING OF THE SNARK AND OTHER POEMS AND VERSES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. Illustrated by Peter Newell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York and London: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers Publishers, 1903. \u003cb\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/b\u003e, thus. 8vo - 9\" x 6\". xiii, 248 pp., [40] leaves of plates. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Publisher's cream-colored paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration to upper cover and spine. Housed in the original publisher's heavy green paper dust jacket with matching gilt lettering and decoration, and the original publisher's printed glassine wrapper. Plain endpapers with light offsetting from wrapper. Illustrated with forty full-page drawings in tint by Peter Newell, with ornamental page borders throughout by Robert Murray Wright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe physical condition of the \u003cstrong\u003ebook is graded FINE\u003c\/strong\u003e in a \u003cstrong\u003eVERY GOOD + dust jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eVERY GOOD + glassine wrapper\u003c\/strong\u003e (utilizing the standard antiquarian book grading scale for works on paper). The paper-covered boards remain bright, clean, and unrubbed, with intact gilt decoration and no fading to the cloth or spine. The original publisher's heavy green paper dust jacket shows minimal shelfwear, featuring a clean split along the upper spine fold extending approximately one-third its length, with uniform sunning across the spine and portions of the panels. The original printed glassine wrapper remains structurally intact with a single horizontal crease and minor fraying along the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Peter Newell Holiday Editions and Harper's Graphic Craftsmanship\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished as part of Harper \u0026amp; Brothers' prestigious series of holiday editions designed by Peter Newell, this 1903 volume brought a fresh visual interpretation to Lewis Carroll's classic nonsense poem alongside a selection of verse from \u003ci\u003eRhyme? and Reason?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThrough the Looking-Glass\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSylvie and Bruno\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"citation-544 citation-end-544\"\u003eNewell's distinctive wash drawing\u003csup class=\"superscript embedded\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003es are rendered across forty full-page tinted plates, while Robert Murray Wright's ornamental borders frame the printed text pages throughout, epitomizing American gift book design \u003cspan class=\"citation-543\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"citation-542 citation-543\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"citation-541 citation-542 citation-543\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"citation-540 citation-541 citation-542 citation-543\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"citation-539 citation-540 citation-541 citation-542 citation-543 citation-end-543\"\u003eat the turn of the twentieth century. Harper's production standards for these editions incorporated a layered protective strategy—encasing the decorated board binding within a heavy paper dust jacket and a delicate printed glassine over-wrapper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduction Fragility, Wrapper Preservation, and Market Scarcity\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause early twentieth-century trade publications were intended for active handling, the light cream paper boards and fragile printed glassine wrappers of the Peter Newell Carroll series were exceptionally vulnerable to soil, tearing, and discarded usage. While copies of the 1903 text block survive in general antiquarian market channels, the simultaneous preservation of both the decorated green paper dust jacket and the original printed glassine wrapper is exceedingly rare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN EXCEPTIONALLY PRESERVED COPY FEATURING BOTH THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S DUST JACKET AND EXCEEDINGLY RARE PRINTED GLASSINE WRAPPER, REPRESENTING A CRITICAL ACQUISITION FOR INSTITUTIONAL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OR EXTRAORDINARY PRIVATE COLLECTIONS DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, LEWIS CARROLL, OR AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATION.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e# 000653\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wallace \u0026 Clark, Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43407311831189,"sku":null,"price":1000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0459\/2589\/2245\/files\/thehuntingofthesnark0104292018.jpg?v=1682902780","url":"https:\/\/wallaceandclark.com\/products\/hunting-of-the-snark-lewis-carroll-peter-newell-1903-glassine","provider":"Wallace \u0026 Clark, Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}